Bert writes the blog www.klezmerguy.com.
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- There’s that bar scene in “Fiddler on the Roof,” where Ukrainians and...
My wife is pushing our pregnant daughter to name the baby Cecil. My daughter is pregnant and wants...
American Jews find the present changes our view of the past. Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania....
Everyone in the audience had an astonishing story. Cleveland I played clarinet last month at Café...
Lakewood, Ohio I went to my first eviction hearing in two years last week. I hadn’t evicted...
Old Poets: Reminiscences & Opinions, by Donald Hall (Godine, 296 pp., $27.95) In Old Poets, the...
Lakewood, Ohio I got in trouble for throwing out Santa. He was in a storage locker in the basement...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights want to make a lake disappear down...
My dad, Toby, hit tennis balls with me after work. He would say: “Racquet back. Hit it now!” He...
“People do not go to the North Pole and fall off icebergs. They go to offices, quarrel with their...
‘Cleveland is a city that has been ravaged by financiers and industrialists . . . its population...
My tennis buddies sound like middle schoolers when they talk about age differences. A year, plus or...
I just got back from a vacation to Guatemala. A friend in Cleveland said, “Seems like more people...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- On a podcast, the keyboard player talked about his love of oat milk. The...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Lake Erie is a just a blob on a map to many Greater Clevelanders. Some...
The federal moratorium on evictions ends March 31—maybe. The government keeps pushing the date...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- I sat in front of a shelf of red wines and got my COVID-19 shot. I got...
Lakewood, Ohio An enormous oak fell onto one of the apartment buildings I own. There was no water...
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Mark Zuckerberg wants half of Facebook employees to eventually work from...
Lakewood, Ohio I collect rents. I used to hang out occasionally with fellow landlords at the...